CASA BURES

Casa Burés is a modernist building in Barcelona by Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, although the project was signed by Miquel Pascual i Tintorer, since Berenguer, a close collaborator of Antoni Gaudí, never obtained the title of architect. It is located on the corner of Calle Ausiàs Marc and Calle Girona, in Barcelona. It was built between 1900 and 1905 on behalf of the industrial textile Francesc Burés i Borràs. In 1910 the roof terrace was expanded with some units for the service and the owners received permission from the Barcelona City Council to rent, where it stands out that "it has abundant water and water-closets." The building has neo-Gothic and Germanic influences typical of this stage of modernism. It is made up of a ground floor and four floors, with a basement and an attic. The project of the building, of about 7000 m², foresaw the two vertices of the chamfer that occupies two towers with a circular plan and conical roof, of which only one was built. The house was commissioned by the textile industrialist Francesc Burés i Borràs in 1900 to locate his home and the headquarters and warehouses of Industrias Burés with a factory in Angles, although the family saga came from Bages, where the activity had begun two generations earlier textile with factories in San Juan de Torruella and, later, in Castellbell and Vilar where they founded Colonia Burés.